1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gowin/main.cc b/gowin/main.cc
index 1473f3e8..db74545e 100644
--- a/gowin/main.cc
+++ b/gowin/main.cc
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #ifdef MAIN_EXECUTABLE
 
 #include <fstream>
+#include <locale>
 #include <regex>
 #include "command.h"
 #include "design_utils.h"
@@ -90,6 +91,11 @@ void GowinCommandHandler::customAfterLoad(Context *ctx)
 
 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
+    // set the locale here because when you create a context you create several
+    // floating point strings whose representation depends on the locale. If
+    // you don't do this, the strings will be in the C locale and later when Qt
+    // starts it won't be able to read them back as numbers.
+    std::locale::global(std::locale(""));
     GowinCommandHandler handler(argc, argv);
     return handler.exec();
 }